Buying bulk unpainted streetscape products from us makes for a simplified and fast way to easily get the quality products you need at a great price before customizing them as you see fit for your branding needs and specific local regulations.

Here are three of the many advantages of purchasing unpainted products in bulk:

1. One phone call. Ready to ship.

Here at Brandon Industries, we’ve got more than 30,000 square feet of unpainted inventory that is in stock and ready to ship, providing you with the fastest lead time in the industry. With one simple phone call, a direct sale can be made with a living, breathing streetscape expert who can answer any of your questions and get you the exact bulk order you need. The simplicity and ease of the order and shipping process is unparallelled. Orders will ship to your site or a powder coater of your choosing.

2. Maximum Savings

Per-skid pricing of unpainted streetscape products will maximize your savings. Get exactly what you need for a specific project or to enhance your inventory.

3. Unpainted Streetscape Products = Flexible Customization

In addition to the cost advantage of purchasing quality unpainted streetscape products in bulk, the lack of paint provides the full freedom you need to customize the products however you see fit, according to your branding goals and local codes and regulations. You’ll have unlimited options for the powder coater of your choosing, or for your own paint finish.

All of Brandon Industries’ quality bulk unpainted streetscape products, such as sign pole bases, street sign finials, street sign poles and street sign trims, offer the advantages of simple order and shipping, maximum savings, and flexible customization, among their other advantages.

From our headquarters in McKinney, Texas, just 30 miles north of Downtown Dallas, we’re proud to provide a comprehensive catalog of top-quality street signs, including:

• Custom Logo Signs
• Custom-Shape Aluminum Signs
• Wayfinding Signs
• HDPE & ACP Signs
• Street Signs
• Radar Signs

A few weeks ago, we provided some basic instructions for how to install a sign post. Today, let’s finish the job and go step by step through how to attach signs, trims and brackets to posts. Let’s take a look:

How you attach sign to the pole depends, of course, on the pole you’ve installed:

Fluted Pole Installations and Smooth Pole Installations

Both smooth poles (like our smooth round poles and our smooth square poles) and our fluted poles come without pre-drilled holes, so you’ll need to drill holes yourself in order to mount trims, brackets and the actual signs. Measure carefully before drilling to determine the clearance height of the lowest sign. Make sure that the sign height you measure will conform to city and neighborhood restrictions. Use a level to verify that the drilled hole will be perpendicular to the post, or measure carefully and drill from opposite sides to ensure proper alignment. Then it’s a simple matter of using the screws to fasten the sign to the post.

Channel Pole Installations

Our proprietary channel poles, on the other hand, do not require drilling in order to attach signs. Instead, the signs are attached to the channel. You simply slide the nut or bolt into the channel, tighten, and call it a day. It’s that simple.

Note: Sign blades and sign trims also need to be assembled, but here too installation is incredibly easy. You simply slide the double-sided street sign into the trim, and use a set screw to hold it in place.

It’s 70s and sunny more often than not these days here at our headquarters in McKinney, and that means spring’s spectacular arrival is here.

In other words, house hunters are coming. Is your neighborhood ready?

The past couple years haven’t been friendly for home values across Dallas-Ft. Worth, leaving lots of homeowners who are in need of a relocation unable to sell their homes. But there are a handful of positive signs on the horizon that suggest that things will continue to turn around this spring.

The massive glut of unsold houses on the market (and being withheld from the market until prices improve) means that prices are going to stay low for a while longer until the glut sells off. But things are slowly improving, and there’s lots of pent up demand from folks who’ve simply been waiting out the uncertainty of the past couple years before buying. Furthermore, the current historic buyers’ market means that—especially for those who don’t have to sell a house in order to buy one—it’s a good bet that people will be buying this spring.

A fresh, impressive streetscape can make a bigger difference attracting these home-buyers than you might think.

First impressions matter. A sense of community matters. And, of course, safety matters.

At Brandon Industries, our quality streetscape solutions can help make your neighborhood the sort of place that house hunters are looking for as a place to set down some roots. Our elegant, stately outdoor lamp posts improve traffic safety and deter crime (and look really, really dignified while doing it). Our driver feedback signs slow down drivers. Attractive custom street signs make it easy for visitors (e.g. house hunters) to get around. And our decorative mailboxes create a sense of neighborly cohesion.

Small investments like these in smart streetscapes and outdoor lighting systems will pay off over the long-term through higher home values. Home shoppers will notice the difference from the moment they drive in.

For health, wealth, and community growth, walkability matters. At least, that is, according to The Atlantic, who recently collated a flurry of studies and city rankings about the effects of pedestrian-friendly communities.

“The popularity of sprawling auto-dependent suburbs is waning. A majority of Americans–six in 10–say they would prefer to live in walkable neighborhoods, in both cities and suburbs, if they could. [...]  Christopher Leinberger has shown the positive effects of walkability in cities, towns, and suburbs; the architects Ellen Dunham Jones and June Williamson have detailed ways that older car-oriented suburbs can be retrofitted into more people-friendly, mixed-use, walkable communities. And walkability pays. According to research by Joe Cortright, housing prices have held up better in more walkable communities.”

According to the magazine, San Francisco, New York, Boston, Philadelphia earned the top spots as America’s most walkable cities. Texas cities like Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio, on the other hand, didn’t do quite as well.

Now, obviously, more densely urbanized cities like New York and San Francisco will have higher walk scores due to increased need to invest in pedestrian-friendly infrastructure than more sprawling, car-necessary cities like Dallas and Houston. But as many recent mixed-use developments in the Dallas area have shown, low city-wide scores don’t prevent individual neighborhoods—whether urban, suburban, or rural—from developing the safe, inviting pedestrian-friendly environments that homebuyers crave. Suburban-heavy cities with high walk scores like Denver, Portland, Los Angeles prove it.

And in either environment, effective signage systems matters. If your community is in an urban environment, parking difficulties, heavy traffic, and increased access to public transportation will make walking much more of a convenience and necessity—and those same contributing factors make accidents more likely as well. For suburban or rural neighborhoods, folks usually need to walk further to get where they’re going, traffic tends to move at higher speeds, and there’s less lighting from dense city blocks—all challenges that can be helped by a well-designed signage system and (at night) network of attractive, coordinated street lights.

Walkable communities tend to have healthy kids and community-oriented populations—a combination reflected in the home values of pedestrian-friendly developments. From another study we quoted a few months ago:

“More than just a pleasant amenity, the walkability of cities translates directly into increases in home values. Homes located in more walkable neighborhoods—those with a mix of common daily shopping and social destinations within a short distance—command a price premium over otherwise similar homes in less walkable areas. Houses with the above- average levels of walkability command a premium of about $4,000 to $34,000 over houses with just average levels of walkability in the typical metropolitan areas studied.”

So here’s the bottom line:

Street signs and outdoor lighting systems keep pedestrians safe and healthy. Pedestrian-friendly neighborhoods relish from higher home values. Our streetscapes, street signs and outdoor lighting systems can make it all happen—no matter where in the city your community is located.

We’d love to help make your community pedestrian-friendly. Contact our Dallas streetscape and street signs experts for more information.

At Brandon Industries, we’re making it easier than ever for you to stay in touch with us. Why?

Because access to information matters when learning how to improve your neighborhood through effective streetscapes. So we’re using technology to keep you up to date about the latest sales, new product information, installation advice, opportunities for live support and feedback, and the latest studies showing how innovative streetscapes can both improve property values and community safety levels.

Here’s how we’re doing it:

1. Live Support — For full confidence that you’re getting the streetscape that matches your community’s vision. For simple questions and answers, there’s our Streetscapes FAQ. But sometimes you just need to talk to someone live. You can do that here, and be certain that you’ll get streetscape support and advice for as far into the future as you need it. Our live support provides instant peace of mind. This feature is also available by using the LIVE SUPPORT ONLINE link at the top of every page on our site.

2. Brandon Industries Facebook — For news and updates, plus a chance to be a part of the Brandon Industries community. Hear from other Brandon customers who’ve successfully seen Brandon’s streetscapes transform their neighborhoods, and exchange ideas about which community improvement approach to take. Also, you can leave feedback for us about ways you think we could improve our products and services. We’d love to hear from you.

3. Brandon Industries Twitter — For instant news and updates about sales, new products, changes and new blog posts.

4. Streetscapes Blog (of course) — For installation demonstrations, product catalog updates, and the latest things we’re learning about neighborhood improvement, light pollution, safe streets, and environmentally friendly communities. Check back often.

Still not satisfied? Contact us the usual way, and we’ll get you all the information you need.

Award Winning Residential Lighting

Brandon Industries has been selected for the 2009 Best of McKinney Award in the Residential Lighting Fixtures category by the U.S. Commerce Association (USCA).

The USCA “Best of Local Business” Award Program recognizes outstanding local businesses throughout the country. Each year, the USCA identifies companies that have achieved exceptional success in various categories in their local community, like Brandon Industries residential lighting fixtures in McKinney, Texas.

The businesses chosen to receive awards are local companies that enhance the positive image of small business through service to their customers and community. The USCA was established to recognize the best of local businesses in their community. Brandon Industries is exceptionally proud to be recognized for their unique products and services.

You can find Brandon Industries antique reproduction lighting systems in residential neighborhoods throughout the country as well as in downtown and municipal restoration projects, amusement parks, country clubs, and parking lots. Our engineers combine casting methods of yesteryear with modern technology to produce commercial aluminum lamp posts and lamppost bases with lasting beauty. Rustproof, extremely durable and easy to install, our cast-aluminum parts have a polyester powder coat finish to provide years of low-maintenance service while combining our decorative old world style with energy-efficient lighting systems.